Re: [mdt-ocl.dev] Offer of GMF-T to help with their resources: what is t

[Axel Uhl <eclipse@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Michael,

thanks for the feedback. Great to hear that the IA is working for you. 
Any feedback as to the API? From my side, of course, it's also +1 for 
promotion.

Ed? Adolfo?

Best,
-- Axel

On 2/3/2012 11:23 AM, Michael Golubev wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Below is update from the GMF-T:
>
> For last 3 weeks we were working on the integration of the
> ImpactAnalyzer into the GMFT-generated diagrams,
> as part of the Bugzilla #368398 -- modeling support for diagram
> properties auto-updated based on semantic properties of the element.
>
> As part of this work we have implemented 50+ tests for IA (right now
> they depends on the GMF-T), and manually tested the generated diagrams
> (that uses IA) with fairly complex OCL expressions. We were focusing on
> the use cases affecting less than a 100 semantic elements, as it is the
> primary use case for diagramming.
>
> So far we have't found any problems and we would like to promote the
> work done for #368398 and # into the GMF-T master.
>
> Even more, in case if IA would be promoted from an examples to be a part
> of the MDT OCL, we will consider rewriting the base diagram updater
> mechanism for using with IA, because it is now clear that it would lead
> to a simpler and more stable diagram code than the one we are actually
> generating for diagram update.
>
> Thus, I am definitely +1 for promoting the IA to the main OCL distribution.
>
> Regards,
> --
>
> *Michael "Borlander" Golubev
> *Eclipse Committer (GMF, UML2Tools)
> at Montages Think Tank, Prague, Czech Republic
>
> Montages AG
> Stampfenbachstr. 48, CH-8006 Zürich
>
> tel:    +41 44 260 75 57
> mob: +420 602 483 463
>
>
>
>
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>
>
> On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 11:55 AM, Axel Uhl <eclipse@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> <mailto:eclipse@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>
>     Philipp,
>
>     I can only say that I fully agree with your assessment. We know what
>     to do: get the IA review done and work on promoting it from
>     examples/ to plugins/ for the "mature" ecore implementation.
>
>     Best,
>     -- Axel
>
>
>     On 1/4/2012 11:51 AM, Philipp W. Kutter | Montages AG wrote:
>
>         GMF-T offered to help with the review of the IA and to promote
>         it to the
>         MDT OCL main component.
>
>         AFAIK the IA only works for the Stable/Old implementation, which
>         is as
>         well used in GMF-T currently. Thus while it will of course help
>         in the
>         future to extend the IA to the Pivot/New, it would currently
>         improve the
>         Stable/Old implementation.
>
>         Has the offer been accepted by the MDT OCL project? I have not
>         seen a
>         clear answer in this mailing list. I have seen prototypes of simply
>         using the example component (thus code duplication!), and an own
>         GMF-T
>         IA implemenation, both of them working.
>
>         I assume, we all agree that using the IA from the MDT OCL project in
>         GMF-T would be the ideal solution.
>
>         A clear answer to the offer of the GMF-T would be very good!
>
>         Regards, Philipp
>
>
>
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